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Ben Poulter received his Ph D in 2005 from the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University, USA. After doing his postdoctoral fellowship at Duke, he moved to the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany, where he used the dynamic global vegetation model LPJ, as a postdoc part of the Marie Curie Research Training Network supported by the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme. Ben also worked at the Swiss Federal Research Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL for two years as a Marie Curie Fellow, concentrating on regional climate impacts and vegetation modeling in mountain systems. He is now (2011) moving to the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environment in Paris working with ...
Patti is Senior Global Warming Specialist at the National Wildlife Federation (NWF). She has been dedicated to the issue of climate change for more than 18 years. Much of her work has focused on translating the science of global warming and its impacts on fish and wildlife into creative and understandable outreach tools, including the award-winning Gardener’s Guide to Global Warming. In 2007, Ms. Glick was one of 23 women around the world named as “An outstanding woman working on climate change issues” by The World Conservation Union (IUCN), and was recognized by The Wildlife Society as “Today’s Wildlife Professional” in The Wildlife Professional, Fall 2008.
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pleted his Master's in Science degree at Oregon State University in 2009 under Ron Neilson and Bev Law with the guidance of the MAPSS team, USDA Forest Service PNW station in Corvallis. His thesis involved using the dynamic general vegetation model, MC1, to assess the impacts of climate change on Pacific Northwest vegetation distributions, fire regimes, and carbon stocks. Currently Brendan is a first-year Ph.D. student at U.C. Irvine, working with Jim Randerson in the Earth System Science department. His Ph. D. research will focus on improving fire effects and post-fire succession representation in the Community Land Model (CLM) model in order to assess global fire radiative forcings and the role of fire in global vegetation migrations.
Since 1992 James Lenihan (click here to access Jim's web page) has been a member of the Mapped Atmosphere-Plant-Soil System (MAPSS) team, part of the USDA Forest Service "Managing Natural Disturbance Regimes" Program at the Pacific Northwest research station in Corvallis. As a member of the team lead by Ron Neilson, Jim 
contributed to the creation of process-based, large-scale models of ecosystem dynamics and natural disturbance. His specific focus has been to simulate the regional to global scale impacts of fire on the distribution, structure, and function of ecosystems and on the associated carbon cycle. He designed a state-of-the-art dynamic simulation module that has been integrated in the dynamic global vegetation model MC1 and to this day provides seasonal fire risks and drought forecasts (for forecasts click here). Jim simulated future climate impacts on California natural ecosystems and...
